British Columbia's economy is largely resource-based.

British Columbia's geography is epitomized by the variety and intensity of its physical relief, which has defined patterns of Human settlement | settlement and industry since colonization.

British Columbia's land area is.

British Columbia's capital is Victoria, located at the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island.

The Coast Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets provide some of British Columbia's renowned and spectacular scenery, which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.

British Columbia's provincial parks system is the second largest parks system in Canada ( the largest is Canada's National Parks system ).

System and its Creator Melville Dewey by University of British Columbia's mission, the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

As of 2011, 2, 590, 921 people ( 59 % of British Columbia's total population ), lived in the region ; sixteen of the province's thirty most populous municipalities are located there.

As part of British Columbia's 1871 agreement to join Canadian Confederation, the government had agreed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a transcontinental railway linking the Pacific Province to the eastern provinces.

UVic is British Columbia's second largest research university, after UBC, and is one of Canada's top 20 research institutions.

* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

* Ric Careless, one of British Columbia's leaders in wilderness preservation, named Environmentalist of the Year ( 1991 ) by Equinox Magazine and River Conservationist of the Year ( 1993 ) by American Rivers

British Columbia's position is based on the principle of natural prolongation which developed in international law.

In March 2008, the Chemainus First Nation proposed renaming the strait the " Salish Sea ", an idea that reportedly met with approval by British Columbia's Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong, who pledged to put it before the B. C.

* Southern Medical Program, a distributed site of the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine

* the southeastern Alaska Panhandle was leased from the Russian Empire, from 1839 to 1867, until the lease was ignored by both the Russians and Americans and, subsequently, by the Canadian and the British imperial governments, despite British Columbia's protests.

The cancellation was confirmed in 1995 by the federal government's " war on the deficit " and British Columbia's subsequent highway capital spending freeze.

Unlike the Expo Line, the Millennium Line's stations were designed by British Columbia's top architects, resulting in dramatically different stations from those on the Expo Line.

Each province has its own act, such as Ontario and British Columbia's respective good Samaritan acts ; Alberta's Emergency Medical Aid Act ; and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act Only in Quebec, a civil law jurisdiction, does a person have a general duty to respond, as written in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

* VSS, a simulator developed at the University of British Columbia's Computing Centre that makes it possible to run OS / MFT, OS / MVT, VS1, and MVS application programs under MTS.

Under British Columbia's Body Armour Control Act, it is illegal to possess body armour without a licence ( unless exempted ) issued by the provincial government.

It contains some of British Columbia's highest mountains.

Because the Coast Mountains are just east of the Pacific Ocean, they have a profound effect on British Columbia's climate by forcing moisture-laden air off the Pacific Ocean to rise, dropping heavy rainfalls on the western slopes where lush forests exist.

Their major victory at the Battle of Isandlwana is well known, but they also forced back a British column at the Battle of Hlobane mountain, deploying fast-moving regiments over a wide area in the rugged ravines and gullies while the British were quickly on the move.

Erica eventually finds love with a rugged, yet sensitive British artist ( Alan Bates ).

Morgan used this advantage to initiate guerrilla tactics by which he first killed the Indian guides the British used to find their way through the rugged terrain and also to kill the British officers that led the troops.

Initiated by the Government in response to an unprovoked rebel attack on British soldiers escorting a soldier to New Plymouth in the Taranaki Region, it ended with the retreat of the Kingitanga Māori into the rugged interior of the North Island and the confiscation of about 12, 000 km² of Māori land.

Whistler, British Columbia, nestled in the rugged Coast Mountains, is consistently ranked as the # 1 ski resort destination in North America and co-hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

The US portion of the North Cascades and the adjoining Skagit Range in British Columbia are most notable for their dramatic scenery and challenging mountaineering, both resulting from their steep, rugged topography.

Airways was commissioned to do aerial surveys for the giant aluminium and power complexes at Kitimat and Kemano in the rugged mountainous backcountry of British Columbia.

Considered one of the last truly wild major rivers in British Columbia, it drains a rugged, largely pristine, area east of the Coast Mountains, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep glacier-lined gorges to empty into Eastern Passage, just north of the city of Wrangell, which is situated at the north end of Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago.

The British North American Exploring Expedition, commonly called the Palliser Expedition, explored and surveyed the open prairies and rugged wilderness of western Canada from 1857 to 1860.

In 1879 Webley developed & sold commercially a rugged and powerful revolver intended for the British military, the WG or Webley Government in. 455 /. 476, the WG's cylinder was long enough for. 44 Russian &. 45 Colt length rounds Farmer has seen. 45 Colt chambered WG models, but is unsure if they were converted. 455s-further research is needed for WG chamberings-he has seen Belgian WG copies made in. 44-40.

Nootka Sound is a complex inlet or sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Chater used his Camel Corps to skirmish with and screen against the advancing Italians as the other British and Commonwealth forces pulled back towards Tug Argan, to form defensive positions in the rugged Assa Hills overlooking the main road to the capital, Berbera.

When first encountered by early British colonial authorities, they lived in the rugged hills in the southeastern corner of the Jos Plateau and in settlements around the plateau base.

The later division of fine-manner prints represent a certain degree of technical advance from the earlier, and are softer in style, with elements of more classic grace and playfulness ; their motives moreover are seldom, original, but are borrowed from various sources, some from German engravings, some from Botticelli or a designer closely akin to him, some from the pages of the British Museum Chronicle-book itself, with a certain softening and attenuating of their rugged spirit ; as though the book, after the death of the original draftsman engraver, had remained in his workshop and continued to he used by his successors.

For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory.

* April 19 – British explorer Captain James Cook and his crew aboard become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.

Vaudreuil and Montcalm were only minimally resupplied in 1758, as the British blockade of the French coastline limited French shipping.

The expedition eventually led in 1770 to the British discovery and charting of the Eastern coastline of Australia.

Various Spanish maps, including Caamaño's, were given to George Vancouver in 1792, as the Spanish and British worked together to chart the complex coastline.

Although General Cornwallis, the British Commander, held the field at the end of the battle, his losses were so severe that he decided to withdraw to the Carolina and Virginia coastline, where he could receive reinforcements and his battered army could be protected by the British Navy.

Rum-running and border jumping thrived along Blaine's shared coastline with British Columbia, due in part to the area's largest whiskey still being located on Texada Island, which is located in the northern Strait of Georgia offshore from the city of Powell River, British Columbia.

In March 1937, the then Director of Operations Group Captain Robert Saundby, complained that the role for Coastal Command in war, namely supporting the bomber offensive, and second, the support of naval forces along the British coastline, were too limited and was in danger of diverting the Command from its main concern ; ASW.

Beginning in 1964 the first in what became a fleet of 10 offshore pirate radio stations began to ring the British coastline.

Under the British, cane planting expanded to richer coastal lands, with greater coastline protection.

Germain drew up a plan to continue the war using the existing British bases in Charleston, New York, Savannah and Canada to harass the American coastline and frontiers.

In 1940, the coastline at Studland Bay was one of the two stretches of Dorset coast where a German invasion was considered most likely and it was fortified as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II.

By 1801, the Nizam's dominion assumed the shape it is now remembered for: that of a princely state with territories in central Deccan, bounded on all sides by British India, whereas 150 years earlier it had considerable coastline on the Indian Ocean.

Dalrymple was bitterly disappointed that it was Captain Cook and not him who was appointed commander of the expedition which eventually led in 1770 to the British encounter and charting of the eastern coastline of Australia.

Thurso is the most northerly town on the British mainland, situated on the northern coastline overlooking the Orkney Islands.

The Chain Home stations were arranged around the British coast, initially in the South and East but later the entire coastline, including the Shetland Islands.

Using the book as hard evidence of illegal trading, Baldwin calls expert witnesses including Captain Fitzgerald ( Peter Firth ), a British naval officer assigned to patrol the West African coastline to enforce the British Empire's anti-slavery policies.

The British built about fifty Martello towers around the Irish coastline, especially along the east coast, from Millmount ( Drogheda ), to Bray, around Dublin Bay but also around Cork Harbour on the south coast.

Confronted with the failure of the Schlieffen Plan due to Moltke's interference, he attempted to outflank the British and French in the " Race to the Sea ", a series of engagements throughout northern France and Belgium in which each side tried to turn the other's flank until they reached the coastline.

The 9th was assigned to a camp on the British coastline opposite of the German defenses in Pas-de-Calais, ostensibly as part of the " First US Army Group " ( FUSAG ) under Gen. John W. Leonard.

The signing of the Treaty of Waitangi made New Zealand a colony in the British Empire, so the defence of the coastline became the responsibility of the Royal Navy.